PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert A. Rescorla, Leon Kamin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Predict important events in the environments and we label the important events as us. When one of these events occurs and tis not expected, the organism will nd a predictor of that event. Nding the predictor implies learning and learning occurs when you are actually in a state of surprise (something happening to you that s going against your expectation) The model is a mathematical expression of surprise: Learning will occur only when the subject is surprise - that is, when what happens is different from what the subject expected to happen. Don t care about the tone because they know the light is the predictor of food (only focused on the light) There is no learning in phase 2 for the blocking group. This experiment is important because it shows that: conditioning is not an automatic result of cs-us pairings, for conditioning to occur, the cs must be informative and the us surprising.